My Ántonia

One of the warmest, most quietly rousing books that I know; a clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit and the innate hardiness of the immigrants who came across the ocean to start afresh in the golden west

Guardian, Xan Brooks

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia

H. L. Mencken

Cather was the first great American novelist to make the West - the real West, not the stuff of pulp fiction - her theme. She makes you see, smell, and feel the prairie

Slate